Sunday, March 15, 2015

Aerohive AP230

It's been a while since I last evaluated access points in 2010 and have decided to see what is available. When I reached out to Aerohive their rep offered me something I couldn't refuse-a free as in free beer AP230. This is a wireless N and AC access point and includes a 3 year subscription to HiveManager Online - their version of a wireless controller. Now, at this point is when I'd start ranting about Meraki and how they'll disable your network without a payment to them..... But, this access point is only configured by HiveManager Online AND can be configured with the CLI (more on this in another post). Now on to the review...

Out of the box it comes like any access point with a Wall/Ceiling mount, mounting screws, rubber feet, a special type of locking bracket and a 12VDC power supply-no PoE injector.


Upon plugging it in it will connect to HMOL at which point you'll need to to visit the address in the quick start guide to register and create your account.

At that point you can configure it like any Aerohive AP or configure it from the CLI which we will discuss in a later article.

Moving away from software the AP230 just looks different on a ceiling that any other access point-just Aerohive's way of differentiating their product from others. The LED is white when connected to HiveManager and orange when not connected- this doesn't mean that it isn't working. In terms of speed I've gotten everything from from 24 megs on a Nexus tablet to 270 on an EliteBook 8460 with the stock Intel N card and different configurations. It has 2 gigabit ethernet ports (only 1 can do PoE).



In the next post I'll go over configuring it with the CLI.

3 comments:

  1. Hi. Have you had any luck with your CLI setups? I'm very interested in learning more about CLI for these devices. Do you have any other configurations that you would be willing to share? Thank you...

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  2. Hi, Take a look at the next post, it gives you an idea as to how you can configure a basic network. I may be posting some in depth configuration examples soon.

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